Skipping everything concerning Water 7 because Celosia would just step back and wait for Lucci to finish his work anyway. We'll see how things go from here. I honestly have no clue.

Disclaimer: Nope. Still don't own One Piece or Harry Potter.

Claimer: Yep. Still own Vito.

Here the Chapter Starts

Aqua Laguna, even though it just started not long ago, is a powerful storm. And government officials are a pain in her ass. They kept trying to chase her and Vito away from the train, telling her that it was being commandeered for government business, which she has no part in. It was kind of funny watching Corgi sputter around as she ignored his presence, telling Vito to get on the train once the wind started picking up.

She could feel the wind growing stronger, the pellets of falling water more forceful as time goes on. It is no wonder the storm takes more of the city each time. But something told her they are on a time limit, that this is not the worst of the storm. Lucci told her that there are massive waves, and she has yet to see one. The sea is restless, yes, but she doubted that this was what he truly meant.

Excitement in the crowd alerted her to the arrival of the others. With a smirk, she boarded the train upon hearing the demanding yell of one of the prisoners. The noisy official is distracted enough for her to board without further headache-inducing yells. Passing by the various passengers, she made it to one of the cars that only had one occupant. Already, she didn't like him, or his leering stare and ugly smirk.

Lucci should be getting rid of that one. If she heard correctly, this one hasn't even fully master Rokushiki, only four of the six. At his age, should he have trained like the others did, he should have mastered all of the powers to be accepted into CP9. Otherwise, he's useless.

The next car was empty, which she thought odd until she spotted her child bouncing from seat to seat. This must be where the real CP9 is to be seated.

"Vito, calm yourself," she advised as she took a seat in the middle. "This is still a mission your father is on until we reach Enies Lobby."

"Yes, ma'am," he answered, flipping over the back of one seat to land on her lap. "We're going home now. Right, Mom?"

"Yes, my cub," she replied with a small smile as she petting his hair back. "We're all going home." Looking out the window, she noted the severity of the storm was getting worse. The car door opened and footsteps echoed into the nearly empty compartment. "Everything seems so rushed," she commented, not looking to the man that sat next to her. "Is it the storm or the cargo?"

"It is both," he answered. "Corgi told me you gave him trouble."

"You protest?"

"No."

"Then we do not need to discuss it." She turned to him then smirked. "Nice coat."

"Unnecessary," he scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"I see Hattori even has one. How… cute."

Arms appeared over the back of her seat, a finger poking the top of her head. "Glad you're here, Celosia," Kaku said with a smile. "We all missed you these past few years."

"I am sure you all adjusted to my absence well enough," she replied, reaching up to pat the top of his head then flipped the bill of his cap, knocking the hat off of him.

"Hey!"

Kalifa sighed lowly, brushing back a strand of hair. "At last, our mission is finished," she commented.

"Our mission is finished when we reach Enies Lobby," Lucci corrected sternly. "Do not act so lax, idiots."

The younger agents nodded then took their seats, Kaku across the isle from Lucci and Kalifa in the seat behind him. Strategic, in a sense. No doubt that under Lucci's training, Kaku has grown stronger and probably risen up in the ranks concerning doriki. Best to leave the strongest closer to the escorted criminal.

Celosia noted that Kaku looked bothered. Always the more energetic and emotional one, she wouldn't be surprised if his first long-term undercover mission ended up with him becoming attached to the location or people in the city. Perhaps even the work he did while undercover. She didn't doubt Lucci noticing it.

In fact, her lover looks quite tense. One of the lesser agents came into the cabin, announcing their departure being early due to the weather. When asked if anything was needed, Lucci refused, eager to leave the island he spent too long on.

With a lurch, the train started pulling from the station, plowing through the water and away from the island. Vito, already restless, wiggled down from her lap and started to crawl under the seats. After a few minutes, the official entered the room to brief the group of the strength and guards onboard. Though upon noticing Celosia, he paused and clenched his hands.

"Hey! What are you doing in here!" Corgi demanded before suddenly yelling out as a cub bit down on his calf.

"Vito, enough," Celosia laughed gently behind her hand.

The cub released the man, darting back under the seats to return to his mother. The cub is still restless, though, from what Lucci could tell. He let his tail out then started flicking it in front of Vito's face. As expected, his eyes widened as he started swatting at the tail in front of him. Kaku snickered under his breath, at a better angle to see what was happening. Kalifa leaned over his seat to look as well, smirking when she did.

"Celosia and Vito are allowed to stay here," Lucci informed coldly. "Now continue with your report."

Scowling as he rubbed his leg, Corgi stood back up then coughed into his hand, dismissing the previous couple minutes. He started from the seventh car holding operatives of CP6 and their leader, then continued on until mentioning the car behind them.

When he was dismissed, Lucci turned to her. "You look troubled," he noted.

"With you gone, they went on their own to recruiting for CP9," she informed. "They didn't even take Jyabura along, instead thinking they alone could judge who is good enough. This new one, Nero, has only mastered four out of six. Besides that, I don't like how he looks, nor how he looked at me."

As expected, his eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Uh-oh," Kaku quipped, smirking to the other two.

"Sexual harassment," Kalifa commented, adjusting her glasses as Blueno shook his head slowly.

"If he hasn't mastered Rokushiki, he shouldn't be a member of CP9 in the first place," Lucci commented as he crossed his arms. Vito managed to grab hold of his tail and was gnawing on it, but he pulled his tail away and wrapped the cub with it, lifting him back to Celosia's lap. "It will be rectified."

"Such a promise," Celosia said as she used her magic to change Vito back to his human form. While it is easy for him to slip into his feline body, he had difficulty changing back into a human. Though she suspects it to be because he enjoys being a cheetah/leopard mix more than a human and simply doesn't want to change back. So she has to change him by force, a trick Sirius taught her shortly after Vito's birth.

Here is a line!

"All this noise is upsetting," Celosia commented after the report of two cars being disconnected was made.

"Mom, that man is too loud," Vito complained, burying his face into her stomach while pressing his hands to his ears.

"I know," she told him soothingly, petting his back. Lucci quirked a brow at her curiously. "He has sensitive hearing. What is loud to us is louder to him. He is far more in tune with his animal side than we are because we are able to separate the instincts and mindsets, channel our human senses and responses better. If we desire to. He does not have that control yet, so his senses are stronger."

He nodded in understanding, removing his coat and covering the two with it. One, he didn't want it anyway. Two, it is thick enough that it should block out some sound for reaching their son and irritating him. Celosia pulled it off her but wrapped Vito up in it, making sure his ears are covered.

"Thanks," the boy muttered, still burying his face into Celosia's stomach. "The noise two cars away is really annoying."

"Two cars away?" Blueno repeated.

"Wanze of CP7," Kalifa noted.

"There's also noise outside, on the roof of the car behind us," Vito pointed out, lifting a hand from under the coat to point to the ceiling of their car. "It's really loud."

"I hear it, too," Lucci stated calmly. "Should they make it to us, we will handle the situation."

"If Nero manages to apprehend the prisoners, would that increase his chances of survival?" Kaku inquired with a smirk.

"No."

"Thought not."

"Stop aggravating him," Kalifa scolded, swatting the back of his head.

Seeing the look on Lucci's face, Celosia reached over and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Let them be," she suggested lowly. "They are quite young still. And Kaku needs the distraction from his turmoil."

"It is not distractions he needs," Lucci returned, facing her. "We are not to allow our emotions to rule us."

"Then you have brought shame on yourself as well," she pointed out. "Do your emotions not rule you concerning me? Will they soon rule over you when it comes to our son?"

"That is different," he argued. "I can separate work and personal attachments."

"I am well aware, but Kaku hasn't learned how to just yet. He does not go on long-term missions like this one very often. In fact, this one is his longest. You may have no regrets leaving the island, but I am sure Kaku made some fond memories there. He's upset. It is best to let him settle himself however he can before he is needed."

Lucci rolled his eyes, crossing his arms as he laid one leg over the other. "We cannot allow our guard to drop," he informed her calmly. "We have two prisoners loose on this train, as well as an intruder. And if Vito's ears are as sharp as you claim, they are much closer than we would like them to be."

Celosia sighed, petting back Vito's hair as the boy curled more into her stomach, tucking the coat tighter around his body. "How… upsetting," she decided, lifting her head and looking to the door leading into the compartment where Nico Robin sat. "This stress on everyone is stifling."

The door suddenly broke as a man flew into the compartment, groaning in pain and unconscious. Standing in the car two behind them stood a blonde man dressed in a suit, his bangs hanging over one eye and a cigarette between his lips. He just stood there, staring into their car as the agents stood.

"Too loud," Vito complained, pulling the coat over his head. Celosia rubbed his back soothingly in an effort to keep him calm.

The roof between the two cars suddenly collapsed, two men falling into it. One slim and the other muscular with thick forearms. The blonde spoke with the muscular one as the slim one was kicked away carelessly, Nero sliding down the aisle until he stopped at Lucci's feet.

"It's become so noisy all of a sudden," Kalifa commented with a sigh.

"Are all of the escorting marines down?" Blueno asked as he glanced to the two entering their car.

"We didn't expect much with them anyway."

Celosia glanced from the corner of her eyes, watching Lucci coldly regard the one at his feet. "Who is this?" he asked in annoyance. He already knows, but does need confirmation.

"Corgi and Celosia said that he's the new member of CP9, and knows how to use four of the powers," Kaku confirmed, looking at Nero with a condescending look as well.

Nero raged at the two enemies, claiming to be a battle genius and promising them their death. "How immature," Celosia sighed.

"Too loud," her son repeated.

"You're supposed to capture Franky alive, but let your emotions get the better of you," Lucci lectured, closed his eyes and shook his head in annoyance then glared down at the new agent. "Forget it. You have three seconds to run for your life."

"Run for my life?" Nero said in confusion. "From who?"

"Three." His hand curled except for his index finger.

"Hey! Are you kidding me?!"

"Two."

"Don't do it!"

"One."

"Soru!"

Both disappeared but did not go far as Nero was forcefully ejected from the train, Lucci's finger buried two knuckles deep into his back. The new agent hacked out blood as he fell into the ocean, Lucci regarding coldly, "Half-ass trash, calling yourself a member of CP9. You must master all six forms to call yourself one of us, brat."

"Kalifa, mind making a report," Celosia asked, already knowing what her lover would say. They all knew what he would say. "Lucci declared the new guy weak and worthless, so eliminated him through standard protocol."

"Mom…" Vito whimpered. "There's too much noise."

"It will be done, Celosia," Kalifa agreed with a nod as the woman stood, swaddled child in her arms.

"Vito is getting upset," she informed the leopard zoan. "We will be going somewhere more quiet."

"The only other car is where Nico Robin is," he pointed out. "I would prefer you remain away from her."

"She will do nothing," Celosia assured as she headed towards the door.

"Too loud!" Vito cried out, shifting into his animal form and leaping over his mother's shoulders.

"What the-?! Did that kid just turn into a cat?!" Franky - she assumed that to be him – exclaimed loudly in shock.

Celosia did not move, facing the door that would lead her to Robin's car. "Two prisoners and one intruder, correct?" she asked lowly, tilting her head as though she were listening to something.

"Correct," Lucci answered as she placed the coat over the back of a seat.

"I assume Franky is one prisoner," she sighed, turning to him. "The blonde?"

"The intruder," Blueno informed, keeping his eyes on the two men.

"Then the other prisoner is in the car ahead with Nico Robin," she pointed out, figuring out what sounds it was that bothered her son to the point of shifting. "I wonder how you plan to rescue her when you have no escape plan, Mister 'Hero'. After all, she ate a devil fruit. She cannot swim. And going out in a storm like this is suicidal, at best. I'm surprised that you managed to make it through the previous cars so well. On top, if your wet clothes are any indication. After all, the wind and choppy sea should have unbalanced you enough on the slick rooftop to fall into the water. You are very determined to get to her."

"It's nice to be acknowledged by such a beautiful woman," the blonde chuckled, smirking around his cigarette.

Lucci growled lowly, his lips twitching back to reveal a sharp fang.

"However, if your friends have been informed of her circumstance, and they informed you, then you should know it is pointless for you to continue," Celosia informed coldly as she picked Vito up off the floor. "Meaning your entire rescue attempt is pointless. She will go nowhere so long as the life of her friends' hangs in the balance. She will go to Enies Lobby without any attempts of escape. And just because he can be a man of his word, Lucci will not kill you nor pass the order to kill you. It is best that you cut your losses and behave yourself until you are able to leave the train. And Franky should remain seated and bound until we get there."

Looking to Lucci, her head tilted curiously. "Do you wish to explain why Nico Robin must be taken or do you wish for me to confine them?" she offered.

"If I must," he replied calmly, signaling for her to take her seat. She did as silently told, holding Vito to her chest as Hattori flew over and landed on his head, patting the cub's snout. "There are some people better off dead since they were only born to bring about misfortune upon world. For example, there exists a sleeping demon capable of destroying the world. If there was someone with the ability to wake that demon, even as young as eight years old, we should still eliminate her for the sake of this world."

The blonde stared uncaringly, blowing smoke past his lips. "Your point is?"

"Perhaps explaining would be a waste of time," Celosia sighed gently, easing Vito to a calmer state of mind to make changing him back to his human form easier. Lucci continued talking behind her, informing the blond of why Nico Robin must be killed, though she will suffer beforehand. The government will want to know all her secrets, after all, and will do anything to obtain them.

The door suddenly opened, the woman walking in with a masked man hanging off her arm, begging her to go no further. Vito tensed in her lap, growling as his pupils narrowed and his claws extended. He slipped out of her arms but remained on the seat instead of ducking under it.

"Ah, so that's the noise bothering you so," she realized before waving her hand to the masked one as she rose to her feet. His voice suddenly cut off into silence, which was noticed almost immediately. "You're far too loud for my cub to tolerate. Your voice is annoying as well. All in all, you're upsetting him."

"What the hell did you do to him?!" the blond yelled out.

"I silenced him," she answered, not turning towards the blond but looking up to the dark woman in front of her. "I trust you will not prove to be a problem."

"I won't," the woman assured firmly. "I have no intention of escaping."

"Good." Her hand snapped out, grabbing the masked one by the back of his neck and yanking him forth, throwing him towards the other two. "Two escaped prisoners and one intruder. I believe that the next two cars are empty of marines and agents now, so with us included, and Corgi unconscious in the car in front of us, we are all accounted for."

"It would appear that way," Lucci agreed with a nod.

The masked man silently hacked and rubbed his throat, as though thinking that would help him regain his voice. After a few seconds of useless struggling, he started waving his hands around frantically in signals to the other two men.

"Escort Nice Robin back to her car and make sure she stays there," the zoan ordered, looking over his shoulder to the calm woman with their cub between her feet. "Take Vito with you."

Smirking back at him, she commented sarcastically, "Here I thought you did not wish for us to be in the same area as her." Giving him a small nod, she turned to Robin and grabbed her arm, guiding her back to her seat. "I will listen to you this one time, Lucci. But keep in mind, I am not a member of CP9, thus I am not under your command. I am a wild animal. Remember that."

"It is noted," Lucci sighed lowly, ignoring the smirk Kaku was giving Kalifa, who giggled behind her hand. Those two. He's about ready to strangle them.

The masked one signaled his hands back, as though ordering the two to return to the car behind them. He then grabbed a ball and threw it to the ground, the entire train car filling with smoke. She felt an arm brush by her and Robin being yanked from her grip. Vito ducked under a seat as she changed into her cheetah form, darting through the smoke and grabbing hold of a leg with her jaws, perhaps biting down a bit too hard if the taste of blood spilling into her mouth was any indication. With a sharp tug, the woman fell to the floor, coughing through smoke as an explosion rocked the train cars, one of the occupants yelling out Robin's name.

"We need to get Franky back," Kalifa coughed as the smoke started to clear.

"Celosia, spit that out," Lucci told her, nudging her paw with his foot. She released the leg, licking at the blood that coated her lips. "You realize you could have done serious injury to her. Correct? We need her alive."

Celosia just sat and purred lowly, her tail tip flicking. She can heal the woman well enough to walk without a limp if she has to.

"A smokescreen," Kaku grumbled as Kalifa pulled out her spiky whip. "What a lame trick." The blonde woman flicked the whips out, using them to anchor the disconnected car to staying close by.

"Blueno, retrieve Franky," Lucci ordered.

The large man nodded before opening a doorway in the air and stepping into it. He left it open, probably so that he would not lose his way inside the space to get back to them. Vito emerged from under the seats, slowly making his way to sit between his mother's front paws. With a quick sneeze, he was suddenly a boy again. "How did he do that?" he asked, standing up to look into the doorway.

"It is his devil fruit ability," Lucci explained. "He is able to make gateways through the walls of the atmosphere with his Doa-Doa no Mi. It's worth lies beyond more than just a mere air door. For right now, he is in the other car retrieving Franky."

"So he ate a fruit like you did, but he opens doorways and you turn into a leopard," Vito summed up, looking up at his mother. "Are Sirius and us the only ones that can change without fruits?"

She nodded at him then changed back to her human self, steadily rising to her feet. "Is he that important?" she asked, crossing her arms.

"We originally believed Iceburg to have the plans for Pluton," her lover explained as Vito circled the doorway. "We were wrong. Tom had two apprentices, Iceburg and Cutty Flam. Cutty Flam was believed dead years ago, but he is alive and has changed his name to Franky. Iceburg did originally have the plans to Pluton, but he passed them to Franky. I suppose a similar experience would be the choice your parents made between Sirius and the traitor."

"Only the traitor was a traitor," she scoffed, rolling her eyes. "It seems Franky is not the type."

"Indeed," he agreed, watching the doorway impatiently. "Are you able to treat the bite wound you gave Nico Robin?"

"Easily," she answered as Blueno returned with the struggling man, some blood on his clothing but not enough for them to think he was injured. Celosia smirked as she stepped towards him, her arms crossing as she regarded the seething prisoner almost mockingly. "Do you require assistance, Blueno?"

"I wouldn't turn it down," the larger man answered.

Nodding in acceptance, she clapped her hands over Franky's ears, sending a shockwave of magic to his brain that triggered an immediate sleep-like state. He went limp in Blueno's grasp then was dropped to the floor.

The agent rolled his shoulders and popped his neck. "Heavier than anticipated," he commented.

"How much farther until Enies Lobby?" Celosia inquired curiously, turning to Lucci.

"Not much," the zoan answered as he took his seat once again. To Celosia's surprise, as well as Lucci's, Vito climbed into his lap and stayed there. Lucci didn't say anything to chase him off, so she decided to stay quiet about it as well. The fact that Vito is already that trusting of the father he hasn't officially known since his birth is a good sign that she did not want to break.

Here the Chapter Ends

We get to Enies Lobby next chapter. And yes, still following canon here. Remember, Celosia and Sirius are not members of CP9. They do what they need to do, or feel like they need to do, but they are technically still civilians. They just keep Lucci and Jyabura happy.

Will we get back to the Harry Potter realm? Yes, at some point we will. It will be another few chapters, but we will get there. So chill out and just enjoy the story. ^^ Let me know what you think!